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yeap. i took that long to finish studying. I spent 8 years in uni. first year was studying engineering and i hated that. well, hate was a very strong word, perhaps i just had no interest in that.

then i went to architecture, start from 1st year again. i like it, then i liked it very much (cause i was doing well) and then i was disappointed by it. (that's when i discover commercial architecture and how we work so f***ing hard to make the rich richer...). The unnecessary competitiveness in the industry and the amount of things put into a building, which could be left unused because the 'market' wasn't doing well; the working world waiting for me is of a profit driven slavery to the real-estate developers; all this depressed me alot. i thought about quitting. (some of my friends did when they realised that, and mind you, some of them are great students.)

then 5th year came. i participated in a social project, thinking i was just going for the sake of seeing different places. in helping a outcast family of the Roma people in a small town near Brasov (Roma are the gypsies, whom are usually poor. and we were working with the Roma outcast, the poorest of the poor) i learnt the meaning of what i can do. My efforts did change someone's quality of life.

From 6th year onwards, i seek comfort in this notion that one day i will be building/designing something beneficial to people. I've built stuff around the world (haha, it feels great to be able to say that) and i will continue to head towards that direction. this fuels me from the long hours of study and my current work.

This is a photo of my final year thesis model. It's about a village, more like a small town which has the values that i care for: social, community and environment. i PASSED, and am very happy about it (though i think i could have performed better had i not been such a lazy ass....) i did a thesis which has meaning, good meaning.

wow, 8 years.

when you hike the ABC trek... the ABC trek sounds quite misleading, because it is definitely not as easy as ABC... anyhooo, Ghorepani is one of the stops if you you want to view the Annapurna range from the strategic viewpoint of PoonHill.

well, there's nothing much you can do when you arrive at the stops at the end of each day's hike. this is one of those days where i arrived early. had a tonne of time, so, i sat on my bed next to the window, had my black pen and started to sketch.

i'm so glad i did that. :)

A sketch i did during my year out in Kuching. My Boss, Min invited a few interns to do urban sketches; and i didn't know i could do sketches like this next to the road in less than half an hour! will show more :)

haven't been traveling lately, and realise that i do not actually have a good photo of myself in this stream, so, to say hi to everybody, here's one with me and the kids in Nepal during my HFH trip in 2010.

Hopefully more to Come!!! Blessings and Health to friends :)

Doing my masters Thesis now... the topic is about revitalising my home town, a ex-tin-mining town. Stiched a big Google Earth map together and found out that there are so many water bodies around town. It's such a unique landscape.